Federal Spending Is Up on Artificial Intelligence
OMB announced a policy on March 28 that calls for IT leaders to take a series of actions, including asking agencies to designate chief AI officers and take broad steps to expand transparency in how the government is using AI.
The moves come in response to President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI from October 2023, which laid out an urgent and governmentwide approach to coordinating adoption of the technology.
Agencies are already moving quickly.
The government spent more than $3.3 billion on AI in fiscal year 2022, according to the 2023 AI Index Report from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. That’s up nearly $600 million from a year earlier.